North American Menopause Society (NAMS) video series about important midlife health topics: common cognitive complaints

The North American Menopause Society (NAMS) has started comprehensive video series for clinicians about important midlife health topics. All the interviews in the series are hosted by NAMS Board of Trustees Member and President Dr. Marla Shapiro, a Canadian physician, who led this exciting initiative.

In this latest video, Common Cognitive Complaints, Dr. Shapiro interviews Dr. Victor Henderson, NAMS Past President, Professor of Health Research and Policy and Neurology and Neurological Sciences at Stanford University and Director of the Alzheimer's Disease Research Center in Stanford, California. Dr. Henderson explains cognitive complaints as it relates to aging and decline in estrogen as well as the cardiovascular connection. He also provides advice for when advanced testing is required.   

Here is the video about Common Cognitive Complaints around perimenopausal and menopausal years. 

North American Menopause Society (NAMS) video series about important midlife health topics: Hormone therapy timing hypothesis and cognition

In this latest video, Hormone Therapy and Cognition, Dr. Shapiro interviews Dr. Pauline Maki, Past President of NAMS, Professor of Psychiatry and Psychology, Director of Women’s Mental Health Research, and Research Director at UIC Center for Research in Women and Gender at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Dr. Maki discusses the hormone therapy timing hypothesis and cognition, the relationship between cognition and cardiovascular protection, and the latest cognition trials and studies.

Timing of initiation of hormone therapy in relation to age or time since final menstrual period modify the effect of hormone therapy on cognition as documented now by three very well-known clinical trials. Dr. Maki explains the timing hypothesis very well in this latest NAMS video.